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Control and Openness

The people over at Muktware published a video the other day of Plasma Active running on Google's Nexus 7 tablet. You can see it here: Occasionally people ask me what I think about Plasma Active appearing on various devices, knowing that we're working on a tablet ourselves. It's a really good question, and gets to one of the core tensions around open culture: the interplay between control and benefit.